About

BRAZOS HEALING CENTER (Member of the BCS Chamber of Commerce)

E-Mail: info[at]brazoshealing.com / Phone: (979) 402-3595

Location: 1804 Brothers Blvd, Suite D (Southwood Center in College Station) 

Hours: Open during scheduled classes/events/workshops and by appointment. See our calendar for our schedule.

The mission of the Brazos Healing Center is to support those in the greater Brazos Valley community seeking a central place to:

• access complementary medical therapies and holistic health care consulting
• learn more about various methods to enhance one’s personal development, and
• meet others to exchange ideas for balancing and strengthening the mind-body-spirit connection.

Services offered include holistic healing classes, workshops and events on topics such as tai chi, pilates, yoga, energy therapy, massage therapy, meditation, mindfulness, and wellness.  We also offer energy therapy treatments using Reiki energy therapy and Healing Touch. Private classes and consultations are available to guide and support on an individual level each client’s wellness goals.  More services will be added in the future, so stay tuned!

Click here to get the e-mail updates on the Brazos Healing Center’s happenings: classes, workshops, and special offers.

 Lisa Tauferner, MA (Texas A&M Class of 2007), 200-hour RYT in Hatha & Kundalini Yoga, Usui Reiki Master, Owner of the Brazos Healing Center

Listen to Lisa on KEOS, 89.1FM, in August 2010 talking about the center.

Throughout her life, Lisa has been fascinated with various healing practices and exploring the mind-body connection, all of which have helped her cope with numerous life events. Seeking better health and curious about this increasingly popular practice, she first encountered yoga upon taking an instructional class at the Texas A&M Rec Center in 1996 and finally found a lifetime practice to cultivate and maintain awareness of the mind-body connection. She has been teaching yoga since 2001 and is certified in Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga.  She is currently working toward her 500-hour yoga certification.

Since 2001, Lisa has taught yoga classes of various levels and sizes including one-on-one and duo/trio private yoga classes: ”Teaching yoga is a wonderful way to share a practice that has given me so much personally and I enjoy watching students progress and learn both on and off the mat through yoga’s principles. It helps me every day to understand and apply the following principle: a teacher is only as effective as his or her ability to understand where the student is.”

Lisa is a certified Master Reiki practitioner and teacher, which is a form of energy therapy. This healing practice has helped her to maintain a healthy balance in her own life while transforming her understanding of how well being is available to all. She is also trained as a Oneness blessing giver, another form of universal energy transfer. Lisa conducts monthly guided meditation & energy shares for the community. In addition to energy therapy and yoga, Lisa incorporates other mindfulness/meditation studies into her classes to included guided visualization, breathing practices, stress/pain management and other relaxation techniques.

Services Offered: Yoga classes & workshops, Reiki energy therapy treatments & training, Personal Development workshops

STAFF

Dr. Patty Bilhartz, MD, (Texas A&M Health Science Center Class of 2009)

Services Offered: Physician Wellness Consults

Dr. Patty Bilhartz is a MD, licensed in the state of Texas and a graduate of the Texas A&M Health Science Center’s College of Medicine program. She completed her internship in Internal Medicine at the Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas, and she also holds a Master’s in Public Health from The School of Rural Public Health at the Texas Health Science Center. Before she became a physician, she was a music teacher. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Music from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Dr. Bilhartz’s philosophy: “We all hold the keys to wellness within us and our minds, bodies, and spirits work together to provide us health that we need to serve others on this earth. The body is amazing and has innate healing properties if we support its functions optimally through healthy lifestyles.”

Beverly McCue, Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), Usui Reiki Master

Beverly trained at and graduated in August 2008 from the Austin Schools of Massage Therapy and is certified in PNF Stretching (proprioceptive muscular facilitation). Beverly continues her massage therapy education through Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. Beverly specializes in various types of massage therapy: Swedish, Myofascial Release, Trigger Point, Deep Tissue and Neuromuscular Therapy, and Sports Massage. Beverly addresses the body with regard to structural alignment and posture, fascial restrictions, range of motion and lifestyle habits – all the while considering each client’s needs. Beverly is also certified in Reiki level 1 and can provide Reiki energy therapy treatments or combine with Reiki in her massages. Through client education, she has found the healing process to be faster and the client more empowered when he or she takes an active role in his or her own healing:

“I firmly believe that massage therapy, whether used as preventative medicine, or in conjunction with more traditional forms of healing, can allow the client to progress to higher levels of physical and emotional well being. Massage therapy gives the body a chance to release stress, pain and emotional fatigue.  I believe, as a therapist, it is vital to provide optimal care by being able to recognize what the body needs and to treat it accordingly. I love helping and healing people with the power of touch. It gives me great satisfaction seeing my clients living healthier, happier lives because of the many benefits massage has to offer. I continue growing and learning about health and massage, so that I can offer my clients the latest advancements in the field.  What I do as a massage therapist is life-changing for some people, and even life-saving for others.  I’m not offering a service or product that you’re not going to benefit from, or that you’re going to regret using later on. What I’m offering people is the incredible opportunity to feel better, function better, and live better, without any drugs or work on their part. Your health and over all well being are very important to me.”

Read more about Beverly’s massage therapy services here.

Bonnie Palmer, Raja Yoga Certified Teacher, Reiki Master (Teaches Senior Yoga Stretch)

Bonnie Palmer is a Raja Yoga certified instructor, hence schooled in multiple forms of yoga including Kundalini, Hatha. and various therapeutic yoga methods. Having overcome her own congenital spinal issues has given her special insight into the importance of proper care of the spine, joints and body musculature as a necessity to healthy organ and body function as well as a good quality of life throughout the aging process.

Bonnie is a Reiki Master who has taught and certified several current Reiki Masters in past years. She has also studied several other modalities of healing including Qigong, which she also teaches.

Bonnie studied Raja Yoga under Dr. Kari Rollins, both a Western and Eastern trained medical doctor and yoga teacher trainer, as well as a former instructor at the University of Kansas Medical School.

Lisa Hunter, Mat Pilates Instructor, Certified in Authentic Pilates

Quantum Biofeedback Alliance Certified Practitioner

Lisa Hunter is a native of Fort Myers, Florida where she was born and raised until December 2010 upon moving to Bryan, Texas.  She owned her own Pilates Studio in Fort Myers  for several years and worked with other pilates teachers being trained in the same pilates method.

Lisa received her training and certification from The Pilates Guild™ in 2001 from Fort Myers, Florida.  She provides Authentic Pilates™ instruction, which includes over 600 hours of training and has studied under numerous teacher trainers from around the world, one of who is Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates’ protégé, who continues his legacy.

Her goals are to provide authentic pilates and quantum biofeedback treatments to help in connecting a healthy body, mind and spirit. 

Suzanne Droleskey, Tai Chi – Yang Form Instructor

Dr. Suzanne Droleskey’ s interest in Tai Chi began in 2003 when she saw a presentation of Tai Chi sword performed by the Chinese Student and Scholar Association at Texas A&M University.  When she asked if anyone taught Tai Chi, the students told Droleskey that she could simply join them in their daily practice sessions.  Just as with Tai Chi practiced all over the world, these informal gatherings took place outside, in a park.  Droleskey joined the group and has been practicing Tai Chi ever since.  Through lessons with various Chinese practitioners as well as several visiting Tai Chi masters, Droleskey has learned a number of Tai Chi forms and styles.  Among these are the Yang and Chen styles and Tai Chi performed with a sword, a fan, and the sword with long tassel.

When asked now why she enjoys Tai Chi, Droleskey says, “Originally, I was attracted by the dance-like quality of it, but I never expected something so slow to be both mentally and physically challenging with the overall experience

resulting in relaxation.  From the practice of Tai Chi, not only am I physically stronger and more flexible, I have better balance, I lost weight, and I am better toned.”

Droleskey began teaching Tai Chi at the request of the Director of the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University.  Indeed, her teaching at the Brazos Healing Center is done as a joint program with the Confucius Institute, where she also teaches Tai Chi classes.  The Confucius Institute provides Chinese culture and language programs in Texas.  About her teaching, Droleskey states, “I love teaching adult learners.  It is fun to help them think through how to make the different moves and to adjust what I teach to their different learning styles and capability levels.”  Droleskey indicated that some people are afraid to try Tai Chi because they think they don’t have the ‘athletic ability’ or ‘grace’ to manage it.  “They don’t realize that Tai Chi was designed as a health management exercise and that the majority of practitioners world-wide are over age 50.  Like anything, it takes practice to gain proficiency, but my students consistently tell me that after only a few weeks of doing Tai Chi, they can see gains towards their personal goals of improving, for example, strength, flexibility, or balance.”